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Page 246 - These guesses and conjectures are by no means leaps in the dark; for knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries. There is no discovery so limited as not to illuminate something beyond itself.
Page 279 - Annual Report of the US Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1881—82, by JW Powell.
Page 339 - Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; Hold you here in my hand, Little flower, root and all. And if I could understand What you are, roots and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 278 - Report of the Superintendent of the US naval observatory for the year ending June 30.
Page 279 - III. Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District, with Atlas, by George F. Becker. 1882. 4°. xv, 422 pp.
Page 384 - ... exposed part of the scales hardened, and often much thickened, the apex truncate or more or less produced into an incurved or recurved point or lanceolate appendix. Female cones consisting of numerous scales, imbricate at least when young, either with one pendulous ovule (or carpel) on each side of the thickened and hardened apex, or with three or more erect ovules (or carpels) in marginal notches below the flattened acuminate, and usually dentate or pinnatifid apex. Fruiting-cone enlarged, and...
Page 277 - Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 4to 24 p., with one lithograph plate.
Page 381 - ... Caulopteris, yet as the details were too indistinct and scanty for the erection of any new genus, he knew no existing form with which it could be classed, except the one to which he referred it. It was found in Newcastle, but there are no particulars as to the mine or the horizon. ORDER.
Page 255 - Synonymy of, and Remarks upon, the Specific Names and Authorities of four Species of Australian Marine Shells, originally described by Dr. John Edward Gray in 1825 and 1827...
Page 381 - Jeanpaulia bidens ns Plate 4, fig. 3. Frond broadly flabellate, segments somewhat short, often • becoming broader towards the apex and ending in a short wide bifurcation, or in a curved falcate, acute or acuminate point Veins not conspicuous, numerous (6 to 10) parallel, not branching. The longest of the segments in the specimen figured is 55 millim., and the width is from 3 to 6 millim. The resemblance of the form of this fossil to some species of of Helminthostachys is great, but the parallel...